WHAT IS THE “DAMAGES FUNCTION” FOR GLOBAL WARMING
... standard multiplicative form, which has traditionally been used in practice for some time now, and also an additive analogue that has appeared more recently in the literature. After some numerical exercises, the paper discusses a few of the surprisingly strong implications for economic policy of the ...
... standard multiplicative form, which has traditionally been used in practice for some time now, and also an additive analogue that has appeared more recently in the literature. After some numerical exercises, the paper discusses a few of the surprisingly strong implications for economic policy of the ...
Climate Change and US Agriculture
... This report explores some of the impacts that climate change, with warmer and more variable weather, may have on agriculture in the United States. Its aim is to elucidate how warmer temperatures and an increase in extreme weather events (including spells of very high temperatures, torrential rains a ...
... This report explores some of the impacts that climate change, with warmer and more variable weather, may have on agriculture in the United States. Its aim is to elucidate how warmer temperatures and an increase in extreme weather events (including spells of very high temperatures, torrential rains a ...
climate change in the texan mind
... Many Texans are engaged in actions to limit global warming—and are interested in doing them more frequently. ...
... Many Texans are engaged in actions to limit global warming—and are interested in doing them more frequently. ...
Climate Change in the Wet Tropics
... that a warming planet will cause widespread and mostly harmful effects, scientists and policy makers have proposed various mitigation strategies that might reduce the rate of climate change – a national and international response for those officials in government who must plan now for an uncertain f ...
... that a warming planet will cause widespread and mostly harmful effects, scientists and policy makers have proposed various mitigation strategies that might reduce the rate of climate change – a national and international response for those officials in government who must plan now for an uncertain f ...
Climate Change in the Himalayas
... without statistical significance, we have excluded interpretations of such trends. We have also considered other factors to scrutinize reported trends are data type (gridded versus gauged, recorded versus reconstructed), data length, spatial coverage, and analytical techniques. The trend test result ...
... without statistical significance, we have excluded interpretations of such trends. We have also considered other factors to scrutinize reported trends are data type (gridded versus gauged, recorded versus reconstructed), data length, spatial coverage, and analytical techniques. The trend test result ...
Anthony Patt ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
... Patt, Anthony, Detlef van Vuuren, Frans Berkhout, Asbjørn Aaheim, Andries Hof, Morna Isaac, and Reinhard Mechler (2010). Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand? Climatic Change 99: 383 – 402. Patt, Anthony, Mark Tadross, Patrick Nussbaumer, Kwabena Asante, Marc Metzger, José ...
... Patt, Anthony, Detlef van Vuuren, Frans Berkhout, Asbjørn Aaheim, Andries Hof, Morna Isaac, and Reinhard Mechler (2010). Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand? Climatic Change 99: 383 – 402. Patt, Anthony, Mark Tadross, Patrick Nussbaumer, Kwabena Asante, Marc Metzger, José ...
The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Cash Crop Farms in
... The impact of climate change and the resulting variation in climate can have a serious impact on the agricultural industry. Defined as a change in the state of the climate, climate change can be continually identified by shifts in the mean or variability of temperature and precipitation (Chen 2011). ...
... The impact of climate change and the resulting variation in climate can have a serious impact on the agricultural industry. Defined as a change in the state of the climate, climate change can be continually identified by shifts in the mean or variability of temperature and precipitation (Chen 2011). ...
Working Paper 171 - Steeves and Surminski 2014 (opens in new window)
... context, investigating the role of private companies in the overall quest to increase society’s resilience (Berkhout 2012, Biagini & Miller 2013, Weinhofer & Busch 2012). Climate change policy discussions have increasingly focused on the key role of the private sector in the governance of adaptation ...
... context, investigating the role of private companies in the overall quest to increase society’s resilience (Berkhout 2012, Biagini & Miller 2013, Weinhofer & Busch 2012). Climate change policy discussions have increasingly focused on the key role of the private sector in the governance of adaptation ...
... regions, impacts were similar to forcing of CO2 while in others they were opposite. Hence, LCC can dampen or enhance the impacts of increasing CO2 and as a result, it would not be prudent to explain future changes in temperature extremes and other climatic metrics only by increasing CO2 . LCC is, th ...
NRCan/CIP Projects and Initiatives on climate
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
... Sources of scientific data 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A body of the United Nations, the IPCC provides decision-makers with an objective source of the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic information about climate change, and is generally considered the authority o ...
National Park Service - UAF SNAP
... Arctic Planning (SNAP), which is to connect planners and other individuals with credible data, in order to provide useful advice about adaptation to climate change. In the workshop described in this report, the focus was largely on examples from inland Arctic Alaska parks (Figure 1). However, concer ...
... Arctic Planning (SNAP), which is to connect planners and other individuals with credible data, in order to provide useful advice about adaptation to climate change. In the workshop described in this report, the focus was largely on examples from inland Arctic Alaska parks (Figure 1). However, concer ...
Adapting Environmental Law to the impacts of climate change
... Climate change will be felt in Europe, and so in Germany, too: flooding, storms, droughts and heat waves are just some of the major effects of climate change to which man and the environment will be increasingly exposed and which will in future call for more robust preventive measures. The European ...
... Climate change will be felt in Europe, and so in Germany, too: flooding, storms, droughts and heat waves are just some of the major effects of climate change to which man and the environment will be increasingly exposed and which will in future call for more robust preventive measures. The European ...
Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
... • Second is the recognition that in addition to being climate forcers, three of the four SLCPs are also air pollutants that damage public health and ecosystems. Reducing them will prevent millions of premature deaths every year, protect tens of millions of tonnes of crops, and contribute to sustain ...
... • Second is the recognition that in addition to being climate forcers, three of the four SLCPs are also air pollutants that damage public health and ecosystems. Reducing them will prevent millions of premature deaths every year, protect tens of millions of tonnes of crops, and contribute to sustain ...
Livelihoods and Climate Change - International Institute for
... The starting point for this convergence is a common understanding of the concepts of adaptation, vulnerability, resilience, security, poverty and livelihoods, as well as an understanding of the gaps in current adaptation approaches. Taken together, they indicate a need—and an opening—for adaptation ...
... The starting point for this convergence is a common understanding of the concepts of adaptation, vulnerability, resilience, security, poverty and livelihoods, as well as an understanding of the gaps in current adaptation approaches. Taken together, they indicate a need—and an opening—for adaptation ...
A comment on climate change, conflict and forced migration
... the population live directly from agriculture and many of these from subsistence farming. Importantly, adaptation, involving for example different land-use techniques and livelihood diversification, would lessen the need to migrate. Climate change is also likely to lead to an increase in the frequen ...
... the population live directly from agriculture and many of these from subsistence farming. Importantly, adaptation, involving for example different land-use techniques and livelihood diversification, would lessen the need to migrate. Climate change is also likely to lead to an increase in the frequen ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... targets, actions to be implemented, policy instruments and incentives, as well as sectoral competitiveness studies to estimate the costs and impacts of such policies. 11 In addition, Brazil is the only country in Latin America to have created a specific structure to compile advances in research rela ...
... targets, actions to be implemented, policy instruments and incentives, as well as sectoral competitiveness studies to estimate the costs and impacts of such policies. 11 In addition, Brazil is the only country in Latin America to have created a specific structure to compile advances in research rela ...
Maryland Commission on Climate Change
... Legislative, governmental and scientific bodies around the globe have voiced concerns about the growing risks and costs associated with the severe consequences of climate change. Those concerns have been clearly supported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Climate Change 2014 ...
... Legislative, governmental and scientific bodies around the globe have voiced concerns about the growing risks and costs associated with the severe consequences of climate change. Those concerns have been clearly supported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Climate Change 2014 ...
Indonesia Second National Communication Under The United
... Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the year 1990 and also the results of the first studies on the country’s vulnerability to climate change. The Second National Communication (SNC) presents the National Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the years 2000 to 2005. This Com ...
... Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the year 1990 and also the results of the first studies on the country’s vulnerability to climate change. The Second National Communication (SNC) presents the National Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the years 2000 to 2005. This Com ...
Using the IPCC`s Assessment Report data and climate change
... required professional and ethical standards. The IPCC is seen by many as established to provide a justification for political commitment. For these reasons it has never been fit for purpose.” Using the IPCC’s Assessment Report data and climate change science in geography ...
... required professional and ethical standards. The IPCC is seen by many as established to provide a justification for political commitment. For these reasons it has never been fit for purpose.” Using the IPCC’s Assessment Report data and climate change science in geography ...
Adaptation Planning – What Other States are Doing
... The scientific community has reached a strong consensus that the climate is changing. Current projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate the continental United State can expect temperature increases of between 5.4ºF and 12.6ºF by the year 2100.1 This warming will ha ...
... The scientific community has reached a strong consensus that the climate is changing. Current projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate the continental United State can expect temperature increases of between 5.4ºF and 12.6ºF by the year 2100.1 This warming will ha ...
international legal implications of climate change for the polar
... however, been fairly minimal to date. Nevertheless, the original perception that climate change is not an issue which can be addressed regionally is slowly beginning to change. There are (at least) three areas where action can and should be undertaken by polar states: mitigating and minimising local ...
... however, been fairly minimal to date. Nevertheless, the original perception that climate change is not an issue which can be addressed regionally is slowly beginning to change. There are (at least) three areas where action can and should be undertaken by polar states: mitigating and minimising local ...
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN TRAINING ON VULNERABILITY
... for coastal and marine protected areas (MPAs) in the WIO region. The priorities that emerged at the Climate Change Workshop for Coastal and Marine Protected Areas included: Understanding climate change – Effectively responding to climate change in marine and coastal areas in the WIO region will nece ...
... for coastal and marine protected areas (MPAs) in the WIO region. The priorities that emerged at the Climate Change Workshop for Coastal and Marine Protected Areas included: Understanding climate change – Effectively responding to climate change in marine and coastal areas in the WIO region will nece ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change
... sufficient—they are prescriptions for disaster. Ice sheet disintegration is nonlinear, spurred by amplifying feedbacks. We suggest that ice sheet mass loss, if warming continues unabated, will be characterized better by a doubling time for mass loss rate than by a linear trend. Satellite gravity dat ...
... sufficient—they are prescriptions for disaster. Ice sheet disintegration is nonlinear, spurred by amplifying feedbacks. We suggest that ice sheet mass loss, if warming continues unabated, will be characterized better by a doubling time for mass loss rate than by a linear trend. Satellite gravity dat ...